Acid Girls – Lightworks OFFICIAL VIDEO dir. Steven Ilous from Steven Ilous on Vimeo.

“Let them eat cake!”

Credits:

This is where you buy tickets.

This is where you go to see the show:

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This is a full listing of credits of the people who put it together, but only look at this after you go to the show.

The Eye Writer Initiative

It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.

There are a couple of reasons why I especially love this project:

1. it helps someone to use other means of expressing themselves
2. it’s open source – I can build my own and then build on top of it
3. it demonstrates great work across multiple disciplines and art forms

So far, I haven’t found too much detailed information about the of this next project (i.e. who is working on it, where the software/source code can be accessed, etc) – but I think it’s an interesting concept and could definitely see it’s application to the EyeWriter project above.
This short video demonstrates how eye writing software can be coupled with shape generation software to help create different design suggestions for the end user.
Take the time to view the short video here.
If you have any more information about this project, please leave it in the comments below as I would love to see the two projects grow from one another if possible.

The two pieces of artwork I created using his software represent productive vs non-productive time.

The first shows a visual of what my mornings are like – mainly checking email, meetings (represented by the big black circle in the lower left corner when my computer is in sleep mode), time tracking and keeping up with various other managerial tasks.

The second piece represents my more productive points in the day – namely when I’m crunching through code.

See more artwork generated through this application here.

Aside
He is also my new favorite person for creating this video:

Me too (doing some AR stuff)! from Anatoly Zenkov on Vimeo.

So as not to let my one hour go to waste I’m posting it here for my own amusement. If you find this, then I hope you enjoy it :]

The Challenge:

THEME:
One Hour+ Design Challenge: Core-Toon the Future

DOORS OPEN:
January 5, 2010
9 PM PST (4PM GMT)

DOORS CLOSE:
January 28, 2010
9 PM PST (4PM GMT)

BRIEF:
Now that we’ve finished off the first decade of the Millenium, it’s time to start thinking about where we’ll be
in another ten years. Which trends will dominate? Which brands will rise and which will fall? Who will
fill the Billy Mays vacuum? Answer these questions and more by showing us what you believe will be
THE HOTTEST PRODUCT OF 2020.

HOW TO ENTER:
Download the Photoshop file here (http://www.core77.com/1hdc/2020_template.psd.zip). Use this template to create your vision of the hottest product of 2020. Provide background and context where necessary to convince us that yours is the most compelling vision of the future.

Use sketches, renderings, storyboards, comics, or diagrams to explain your idea.

Reduce your final artwork to a 550 pixel-wide gif or jpeg, and upload it to the forum.

JURY:
LunchBreath, FueledByCoffee, and Core77.

CRITERIA:
Judging will be based on inventiveness, amusement, originality, and the whims of the CoreToon panel.

PRIZE:
Twitter avatar caricature of yourself made by the Core-Toon crew!

My Entry:

Bauhaus has always served as an inspiration and this exhibit helped to put it into perspective.
Exhibit ends this week – be sure to catch it if you can. If you can’t, then may I suggest the following Bauhaus Book, written by the curators of the show.

This survey is MoMA’s first major exhibition since 1938 on the subject of this famous and influential school of avant-garde art. Founded in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the Bauhaus brought together artists, architects, and designers in an extraordinary conversation about the nature of art in the age of technology. Aiming to rethink the very form of modern life, the Bauhaus became the site of a dazzling array of experiments in the visual arts that have profoundly shaped our visual world today.

The exhibition gathers over four hundred works that reflect the broad range of the school’s productions, including industrial design, furniture, architecture, graphics, photography, textiles, ceramics, theater design, painting, and sculpture, many of which have never before been exhibited in the United States. It includes not only works by the school’s famous faculty and best-known students—including Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Marianne Brandt, Marcel Breuer, Lyonel Feininger, Walter Gropius, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Lilly Reich, Oskar Schlemmer, and Gunta Stölzl—but also a broad range of works by innovative but less well-known students, suggesting the collective nature of ideas.

Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity
November 8, 2009–January 25, 2010

Aside from making me feel really old in comparison to the high school aged audience, it was an amazing show and was all that I thought it would be.

Last year, The Knife coupled with Hotel Pro Forma to produce an electro opera based on Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species entitled, Tomorrow, in a Year. The opera incorporated various visual electronic displays that provided a unique take on traditional opera asthetic. A video of the performance can be seen below and a complete description of the performance concept can be found here.

A studio version is being produced by The Knife in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock. The album will be released February 2, 2010 online and in stores March 9, 2010.

‘Tomorrow, In A Year’ is a unique musical project. Richard Dawkins’ gene trees have formed the basis of some of the musical composition, artificial sounds have been mixed with field recordings, with the music inspired by everything from the different stages of a bird learning its melody, to a song based on Darwin’s loving letters about his daughter Anne. These are compositions that challenge the conventional conception of opera music.
[via antimusic]

Sample the track below

Visit RCRD-LBL to download the track free

Find out more about album track listing and performance dates from Big Stereo

Credits

Read more about other high-tech operas from here. [via Fast Company]

Of Note:
I adore Mt. Sims and had the pleasure of meeting and hosting him when he played in ATL in 2004 – good to see he’s still up to great things. I also adore The Knife and so I’m planning on picking this album up as soon as it’s released.

Scrunch flower generator by Mitchell Whitelaw

HBO created an multidimensional storytelling experience to show how HBO content and perspective can bring more to the viewing experience. The marketing product explores how we take in and interpret information given different perspectives on situations. It can be considered a sort of a immersive game for voyeurists.

The campaign consisted of two parts.

In the first part, a real life cube was placed in major cities displaying two two-minute films. This IRL display was showcased in multiple cities and had about a 3 day run for each. Cities included NY, Philly and DC.

[image via Boards Mag]

[image via PSFK]

In the second part, an online experience, was created which really brought together the multidimensional story for the end user and allowed them to explore the full story for themselves.

Users could select which part of the story they wanted to view and change the camera angle at their own leisure along with replaying the same portion of the video over and over until they felt that they got the whole story.

Users were given the ability to zoom out of the scene, surf around to find other scenes that might give them another perspective on the story.

Finally the user was presented with a view of the how much of the story they had ‘unlocked’ and given a sort of time line of how the story occurred so that if they wanted to could view the ‘full picture’.

View the interactive story for yourself here: HBO Imagine

Articles of Interest:
Inside ‘HBO Imagine’: Interview With Alison Moore, VP, Brand Strategy & Digital Platforms, HBO (Part 1) | Rick Mathieson
Inside ‘HBO Imagine’: My Interview with Alison Moore, VP/Brand Strategy & Digital Platforms for HBO (Part 2) | Rick Mathieson
HBO Imagine: Cube | Ad of the World
4-Way Narrative: HBO’s Video Cube Installation | PSFK
HBO Imagine Sets a New Bar for Interactive Fiction | NewTeeVee
HBO asks viewers to ‘Imagine’ in new branding campaign | Boards

See also HBO Voyeur